NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 230, 28 September 1935, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD'S PRESS. Busts of Lenin and Stalin are to be placed on the eastern and western peaks of Siberia's famous "White" mountainMount Balukha (14,800 ft high). The western peak has never before been climbed. Twenty-eight Red Army officers, ten scientists and more than 100 "snockworkers" are to attempt the climb en masse. They will be escorted by two aeroplanes and the entire attempt will ue filmed. Hundreds of boxes on the ear will be distributed when the ancient town: ot Muender. in the Deister Hills, West uermany, celebrates its GOOth anniversary tins year. The whole population of Muender, following an old custom, will march rouno the boundaries of the municipal fores*. At every boundary post the youths for® a ring and dance, and every dancer pets a box on the ear with the remark: aow you won't forget the boundaries." A man with one of the world's most dangerous jobs has to meet death to keep himself and others .ilive. He is Ivuroart Ali. an Indian. nVi has a contract witn a medical institute to supply them wnn cobras, the poison of which is used to. experiments. Ktirbad Ali tours India to pursue his strange vocation. To se £ m , liis victims lie employs a mysterious n? r used from time immemorial by India snake charmers. It causes a snake relapse helplessly when brought near it. A means of placing lenses directly on the eyes and so obviating the use of ordinal, spectacles has been perfected by Dr. Jozse Dal 1 os\ of the Professor Cross K.ve C' n . at Budapest, after seven years researci work. The great difficulty till now has been to fit the classes on the eyes, out U • Dallos has designed a device enabling n' to take a mould from the eye and tn prepare perfectly-fitting classes. A P® of the new "contact" glasses at prese costs about £2. Ten thousand students are being paid attend classes in a school at T.os Angel »• If they miss their classes their Pf- 1 "docked." This is a unique educatw, experiment sponsored jointly by County Relief Administration and Department of Public Instruction. .. classes, which will last ten weeks, , cost £212.800. Students eligible to atte the classes are persons on count} rolls. The scheme was conceived to mm them to acquire instruction in a range of studies otherwise impossiole tliem.